Well, for one I've got my arkives working again. It's been a while and I still don't know what happened but it's fixed. It took me a long time because I'm stupid.
For another thing, I played a little on Sunday at SCUM In Seoul: A short solo and story telling and a short duet with Sato Yukie, which was rather dull and uninspiring. On the bright side, the other music that night was goodish. An electronics/cd quartet called Seoul Frequency opened and I have to say they had some gooood moments.
1. Spoken words prologue in between a trumpet-solo on
drums...childhood-memories about a rabbit that was killed & did not die.
Memory-fragments desperate kinder-panics, helpless animal-squeaks & a final
still of runaway.
2. Steven-Spielberg-duet - nearly no words. A mutant rabbit sitting on an
electric guitar moving ears hardly back & forth. Screaming un-decodable
words rolling eyes. Electronic killing-toys create sounds of beyond. The
"murderer" has to play a second role piping constantly balloons (for decades
- as a late punishment).
3. A mourning duo epilogues in a mix of toy-sounds guitar-thunder &
sentimental melodies from the melodramatic keyboard. The (killing) poet is
off (innocent).
Rarely before improvised music using toys & words had been in such a lucky
hit. Toys now seem to be a repertoire of a higher context as well as the
mourning melodies are in contrast to mutant rabbit squeaks on a firing
deadful great guitar.
